March 28, 2024 - Shrimp Heads Ride Again (PS Steak (Pseudo La Belle Vie, Mpls, MN)): corked
November 17, 2023 - This pours light gold in the glass. The nose is love, aromatic, and classic Vouvray showing apple blossom beeswax, lanolin, baked peach, chalky mineral, and applesauce. The palate is just the tiniest pinch off dry feeling like the typical 5 - 6 g/l entering on fresh crisp apple. The acid is medium plus, almost high and quite sour, turning a touch toward bitter apple skin on the finish. All in all the nose is quite classic and thoroughly enjoyable and the palate while bright and refreshing is definitely a tad bitter, holding this back a little for my tastes. Still quite nicely done and I'm happy to report holding up very well after 13 years.
February 28, 2023 - Bought on auction. Second bottle this winter, both consistent. My first Huet cuvee so take it for what it is: dense yellow colour, honey melon, a developed feel to it, but also a sezt of kefir leaves on the nose. Succulent, rich on the palate, shows it self as as rich as a tendre or demi-sec, some gentle spices at the end like camomille, but prolonging with the acid still holding up at day three. Impressive consistent with the exposure to air. On that note I guess it will sit well on its plateau.
December 30, 2022 - Very acidic upon opening. 4 hours gave it more balance. Beautiful wine that shows lots of ageing already. Hay, beeswax, lime, lemon, minerality ++ Drank over 3 days and just keeps on balancing out and delivering on a very high level.
December 29, 2021 - This is a stunningly good and terribly young wine. Still the palest yellow color with a hint of gold. It should be decanted and left at room temperature for some time before it opens to reveal aromas of hay and honey and flavor of dry honey and lemon rind. I had to open this to give try it although I know it is too young. Give it 20+ years. I confess I will have a hard time waiting.
January 19, 2021 - Very good. Held since release, this PnP was good on first opening, but as might be expected, it picked up some more expression as the bottle fellow below its half-way point, some one hour into it. The color reveals no age, and the aromas are more integrated than in your face primary. The waxiness of the Chenin has something of a spicy edge to it that I seldom find, but then I mostly drink the Demi-Sec bottles. Brilliant with food/apps. 12,5% abv., I'd say this is comfortably in the zone. highly recommended
January 3, 2021 - Apple with some honeyed notes which follow through on the palate with rich apple tarte tainte flavours and some stony, mineral notes. This is definitely dry but the honeyed notes suggests otherwise. It’s complex and ethereal and I’m afraid my desorption doesn’t do it justice.
December 27, 2020 - This is at a perfect point in its evolution and has everything you’d look for in a Chenin blanc. Developing a golden hue, nose shows honeycomb, honeysuckle and juicy apple fruit. It is forthcoming. These characters follow into the palate, which has precise, persistent acid and introduces burnt caramel and brioche notes. It’s clean, and will continue to improve I would think.
December 12, 2020 - Opened at cellar temperature and consumed over several hours. Golden yellow color. Nose is similar to a pear cider, apple cider, or calvados without the alcohol. Very refined and elegant nose. Palate is orchard fruit with complementary acidity that continues through the finish. Overall impression is that this wine is supremely elegant and drinkable. A bottle consumed six months ago had some oxidative character and was just OK, but this bottle had no oxidative notes and was much better.
July 19, 2020 - 1st of 2 bottles, purchased at $28 USD in 2011...what a WFTM.
This may be the best Chenin Blanc I have ever had the pleasure of drinking. Nice notes of wet wool, quince, lychee, pear and apricot preserves on the nose. Once on the palate, this wine shows med+ in body, a bit of heaviness, with the orchard fruits peeking through, alongside honeycomb, lanolin, minerality, and quite brisk acids that melds the whole experience into a focused and tense symphony, direct and correct.
This is a beautiful and delicious wine, varietally correct and just lovely. The off-dry palate is perfectly reeled in with laser focus and balance.
Delicious, drink now through 2025+.